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- 0:00Speaker 1: Cut booms.
- 0:02Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
- 0:05Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
- 0:09Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
- 0:12Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
- 0:15Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
- 0:19Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
- 0:23Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
- 0:29Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
- 0:35Speaker 3: Mahler and Danny g Radio and a happy, happy, happy,
- 0:40Speaker 3: happy Sunday to you.
- 0:42Speaker 4: We'll get down to the sweet sixteen by the end
- 0:46Speaker 4: of the day. It is National Puppy Day to day,
- 0:48Speaker 4: so enjoy that. You have fun with that. And uh
- 0:52Speaker 4: oh man.
- 0:53Speaker 5: When puppies come on the TV, Soa goes crazy and
- 0:56Speaker 5: he's like.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Dog dom dog Yeah. Now do you You don't have
- 1:00Speaker 1: any dogs?
- 1:01Speaker 4: Do you?
- 1:02Speaker 5: We do? Yeah? No, we have. We have a little dog.
- 1:04Speaker 5: Brenda's had him for eight years now, okay, all right.
- 1:07Speaker 5: It is the yeah, one dog, one cat over here.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Okay.
- 1:11Speaker 4: And they get along with each other, yeah they do, yeah, okay.
- 1:14Speaker 4: And Cole's is called more of a dog or cat kid.
- 1:18Speaker 5: He chases both of them equally, and he hits and
- 1:21Speaker 5: pulls tails equally.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Okay, so he's an equal opportunity.
- 1:27Speaker 5: When he's buying the pets, I say, gentle, gentle, soft,
- 1:32Speaker 5: you have to be soft, gentle, and then boom, he
- 1:35Speaker 5: grabs a fist full of fur.
- 1:38Speaker 4: Well that's for him, he's just being that's reasonable activity.
- 1:42Speaker 1: Come on, what do you expect? All right?
- 1:44Speaker 4: I do have a fun fact, Danny. This is for
- 1:46Speaker 4: Alf the alien opine or fun fact. Fun fact, fun fact.
- 1:50Speaker 4: President harding his dog Laddie Boy, the first the White
- 1:56Speaker 4: House first dog. The first ever White House dog was
- 2:00Speaker 4: Laddie Boy. How about that, Oh, Laddie Boy. That was
- 2:03Speaker 4: in nineteen twenty one.
- 2:04Speaker 5: So I didn't know that.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's one hundred plus years ago.
- 2:09Speaker 4: But you'd think, why didn't George Washington or Lincoln or
- 2:13Speaker 4: one of those cats have a dog?
- 2:14Speaker 1: What's up with that?
- 2:16Speaker 5: Also? I think back then they had to eat the dogs.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Well, there's a joke there, but I'll let it go.
- 2:23Speaker 4: And you remember the Movie's Last the lassie movies that
- 2:27Speaker 4: came out from MGM in nineteen forty three, a big
- 2:31Speaker 4: moment in cinema. Hollywood got its first look at Lassie
- 2:36Speaker 4: and Lassie Come Home, and then Snoopy Snoopy came around
- 2:40Speaker 4: in nineteen fifty and I think at Knott's very form
- 2:44Speaker 4: of amusement park in La. Here in Orange County, do
- 2:47Speaker 4: they still have Camp Snoopy?
- 2:48Speaker 1: I think they do.
- 2:49Speaker 5: Oh they do. It's so ghetto in there. Sorry to
- 2:54Speaker 5: tell the truth.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Well, that is unfortunate. That is unfortunate.
- 2:59Speaker 5: Yeah, there was graffiti inside Camp Snoopie.
- 3:01Speaker 4: Oh that's I mean, come on, can't you can't you
- 3:05Speaker 4: at least respect Camp Snoopy? Well it should we I
- 3:09Speaker 4: it's like they spent how many millions of dollars? I
- 3:12Speaker 4: drive by this bridge every day. It's not even a bridge,
- 3:15Speaker 4: it's a it's a road. It looks like a bridge.
- 3:18Speaker 4: It doesn't go over a body of water. I think
- 3:19Speaker 4: bridges go over a body of water. But in La
- 3:23Speaker 4: the is it the seventh Street bridge of the I
- 3:25Speaker 4: think it's the seventh Street bridge. This bridge they restored it.
- 3:28Speaker 4: They spent millions of dollars.
- 3:30Speaker 5: And oh, yeah, I know the one you're talking about.
- 3:32Speaker 4: Yeah, I drive by there every day when I'm coming
- 3:35Speaker 4: back from going to work and going back through downtown
- 3:37Speaker 4: LA and these savages just destroyed. They took all the
- 3:41Speaker 4: copper wiring out of it, so you can't light it up.
- 3:44Speaker 4: It's a beautiful they spent it was great.
- 3:46Speaker 5: Come on, what are you doing? Yeah?
- 3:49Speaker 1: I just f the whole thing up. It was like
- 3:51Speaker 1: what you might?
- 3:52Speaker 4: Come on now, before we get to the mail bag, go,
- 3:54Speaker 4: I did want to begin with the special. I didn't
- 3:58Speaker 4: do this on I don't think I did, right, I
- 4:00Speaker 4: don't think I did. I don't even know. I know
- 4:03Speaker 4: I didn't do it yesterday. But let's do it right now.
- 4:05Speaker 4: The how about the phrase?
- 4:08Speaker 1: The word? We'll do the word of the week, the word?
- 4:10Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you did a phrase of the week on Friday.
- 4:14Speaker 5: No word of the week.
- 4:15Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I need to do the word of
- 4:18Speaker 4: the work. All right, here's the word of the week.
- 4:21Speaker 4: And this was recommended by our friend Alf in Springfield, Massachusetts,
- 4:28Speaker 4: adjacent home of the pro Bouncy Ball Hall of Fame
- 4:30Speaker 4: where Muffett McGraw is enshrined. And the word of the
- 4:35Speaker 4: week is pod casting pod casting. And the word is
- 4:42Speaker 4: a portmanteau. I believe how you say p O R
- 4:46Speaker 4: T M A n T e a U. And it
- 4:50Speaker 4: is a word that is blending the sounds and meanings
- 4:53Speaker 4: of two different words. It's a blend of the word
- 4:56Speaker 4: iPod and the word broadcast. It's kind of obvious and
- 5:00Speaker 4: the first person to use the word podcast or podcasting
- 5:07Speaker 4: was twenty one years ago. A British journalist who was
- 5:13Speaker 4: writing a story for the London newspaper The Guardian, and
- 5:18Speaker 4: his name Ben Ben Hammersley wrote the word podcast. It
- 5:24Speaker 4: was popularized by an app developer, and then it was
- 5:28Speaker 4: added to the dictionary in twenty five, so it's been
- 5:33Speaker 4: it's been twenty years this has been used in dictionaries,
- 5:37Speaker 4: so that's I mean, it's not that long in the
- 5:39Speaker 4: big picture. But back in twenty oh five it was
- 5:42Speaker 4: reported that it was not a popular term. People criticized
- 5:46Speaker 4: the term podcasting and they were upset because they thought, Wow,
- 5:51Speaker 4: you're giving way too much credit to Apple because you
- 5:53Speaker 4: just ripped off the iPad iPod.
- 5:55Speaker 1: Which isn't even a thing anymore.
- 5:57Speaker 4: But back then people were complaining about it and they
- 5:59Speaker 4: said that instead of podcasting, they should call it blogcasting
- 6:03Speaker 4: or audio blogging.
- 6:05Speaker 1: That never picked up.
- 6:06Speaker 5: Do you know right now, I ain't even really I
- 6:09Speaker 5: bet a lot of people are thinking the same thing.
- 6:12Speaker 5: I did. I've never even gave it two seconds of
- 6:14Speaker 5: a thought about why it was named that.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Well, now you know the rest of the story.
- 6:20Speaker 4: You can thank a writer for The Guardian who's a
- 6:23Speaker 4: freelance writer now, Ben Hammersley, who just put together iPod
- 6:28Speaker 4: and broadcast and ta da.
- 6:31Speaker 1: I love the fact.
- 6:32Speaker 4: Even back then though people were bitching, I don't you
- 6:34Speaker 4: shouldn't call it a podcast, call it a blog.
- 6:37Speaker 5: Back then if the iPad had been in place of
- 6:41Speaker 5: the iPod, because we have the iPads now, not iPods, yeah,
- 6:45Speaker 5: would it have been a podcast?
- 6:48Speaker 1: But I'm bumped.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Yeah, sure would have been a podcast. And know that
- 6:53Speaker 4: I also would like to share with the class a story.
- 6:57Speaker 4: One of my old program directors came up to me.
- 7:00Speaker 4: This is in the late nineties, and he's like, we
- 7:06Speaker 4: were on the Dodger station. We were doing a night show,
- 7:09Speaker 4: so we got covered up a lot. Dodgers play on
- 7:11Speaker 4: the West Coast at night most of the time, but
- 7:13Speaker 4: probably eighty five percent of the time ninety percent of
- 7:16Speaker 4: the time.
- 7:17Speaker 1: So we were off quite a bit during the summer.
- 7:19Speaker 4: And the guy's like, Hey, why don't you guys just
- 7:21Speaker 4: do the show for the internet and we'll just record
- 7:24Speaker 4: it and then we can do it. And at that time,
- 7:27Speaker 4: I don't eve think we're going to record. I think
- 7:28Speaker 4: we just do it live on the internet. And I
- 7:31Speaker 4: remember having the conversation with the boss. We both were
- 7:34Speaker 4: like if you lost your bloody mind, who know, because
- 7:37Speaker 4: at that time, no one was listening to anything on
- 7:42Speaker 4: computers and that kind of technology. It just hadn't taken
- 7:44Speaker 4: off yet, and it really wasn't like listening to podcasts
- 7:49Speaker 4: like this really took off until maybe ten fifteen years ago. Right,
- 7:54Speaker 4: I feel like it's been it's been maybe ten fifteen years,
- 7:57Speaker 4: but even now there's still.
- 7:58Speaker 1: More people listening to rap regular radio podcasts. People don't.
- 8:03Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean a lot of it is, yeah, a
- 8:05Speaker 5: lot of it is not a convenience. You still get
- 8:08Speaker 5: in your car and turn flip the radio on.
- 8:11Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's true.
- 8:12Speaker 4: And people don't like to talk about that part because
- 8:14Speaker 4: podcasting is seen is cool and we love doing the
- 8:16Speaker 4: podcast and at some point that's probably all I'll be
- 8:19Speaker 4: doing is the podcast at some point.
- 8:20Speaker 1: But still the numbers, you know, and you say, well.
- 8:25Speaker 4: The numbers aren't right, Well maybe that's maybe that's true,
- 8:28Speaker 4: But the numbers are that we have are that more
- 8:30Speaker 4: people listening to the to the radio.
- 8:32Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. One good thing about podcasts is
- 8:35Speaker 5: when you have a couple of episodes to catch up on,
- 8:38Speaker 5: it's like having a good TV show where the episodes
- 8:42Speaker 5: are stacked up and you can't wait to go binge
- 8:44Speaker 5: the TV show. Whenever I have two podcasts waiting for
- 8:48Speaker 5: me to listen to on my commute, it's like, oh yeah,
- 8:50Speaker 5: I got those podcasts. And so even though it's not
- 8:54Speaker 5: as convenient it's just flipping the FM or AM station on,
- 8:58Speaker 5: I like the fact that it's something you look forward to.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's true.
- 9:02Speaker 4: I have guys that are long haul movers, like moving
- 9:06Speaker 4: man Matt in Boston will not listen to the show
- 9:09Speaker 4: for like two weeks, and then he'll drive from Boston
- 9:12Speaker 4: to Seattle and he'll listen the whole way, like the
- 9:16Speaker 4: whole trip. He's got podcasts four hours a day, five
- 9:19Speaker 4: days a week, and this podcast on the weekend, so
- 9:21Speaker 4: he's got a lot of content.
- 9:23Speaker 1: There's a good archive, good library.
- 9:26Speaker 4: Material, so he'll just listen on his drive across across country,
- 9:30Speaker 4: which you can't do. I remember, as we've talked about
- 9:32Speaker 4: doing radio early on and if you didn't catch the show,
- 9:37Speaker 4: you didn't hear the show. There was no going back
- 9:39Speaker 4: and being like, oh, how would I go back and
- 9:42Speaker 4: hear the show. No, you had to listen. It was
- 9:44Speaker 4: appointment listening. And if you didn't listen, this is like TVO.
- 9:47Speaker 4: Before TVO, there was no you know, unless you caught
- 9:52Speaker 4: it on a rerun. You missed that TV show. Yeah,
- 9:55Speaker 4: for sure, for sure.
- 9:56Speaker 5: All right.
- 9:57Speaker 4: The mail bag, mail bag, mail bag, mail bag, mail bag,
- 10:00Speaker 4: mail bag.
- 10:01Speaker 5: It's B's mail bag. Someday someone's gonna listen back to
- 10:17Speaker 5: this mail bag ten years from now. On a podcast.
- 10:20Speaker 4: There are people that listen to this guy Tony in
- 10:23Speaker 4: the Bay Area who go listen to podcast from twenty seventeen.
- 10:26Speaker 4: I think that's the furthest back. They go, like the
- 10:28Speaker 4: Overnight Show and he'll call up and ask random questions
- 10:31Speaker 4: about what happened in twenty seventeen. I'm like, dude, that's
- 10:34Speaker 4: eight years ago. I'm just trying to get through the day.
- 10:38Speaker 5: I'm just trying to get Oh that's what I'm doing,
- 10:39Speaker 5: Tinderoni tips Man, all right.
- 10:42Speaker 4: Well, another one of those amazing stories. This comes from
- 10:47Speaker 4: Bill in the Great State of Ohio. He does not
- 10:49Speaker 4: say where, So I'm assume I don't know Cincinnati. It's
- 10:52Speaker 4: either Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, or Dayton, probably one of those.
- 10:55Speaker 4: Like very rarely does anyone email us from elsewhere, he writes,
- 11:00Speaker 4: He says, gentleman, another story, he thought you'd appreciate. A
- 11:03Speaker 4: woman here bought a painting at a thrift shop and
- 11:08Speaker 4: was able to sell it for almost one thousand times.
- 11:13Speaker 1: What she paid for it.
- 11:15Speaker 4: And yeah, this woman, cording to the story, this is
- 11:19Speaker 4: in Dayton, Ohio. So I should let Dick and Dayton
- 11:23Speaker 4: know about this, because Dick does do some thrift shopping.
- 11:26Speaker 1: He does. A woman bought a.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Painting for thy Yeah, for sure, and then he loves
- 11:32Speaker 4: send pictures those Dick pics.
- 11:34Speaker 5: All right, so low budget Dick.
- 11:36Speaker 4: Hello, all right, So this woman, she bought a painting
- 11:40Speaker 4: for two dollars and ninety nine cents at a thrift
- 11:42Speaker 4: shop just for the frame. The painting ended up being
- 11:46Speaker 4: auctioned off for two eight hundred and seventy five dollars,
- 11:53Speaker 4: and uh so, yeah it was she thought it was
- 11:56Speaker 4: an awful painting and didn't think it was all that
- 11:58Speaker 4: good and all that. But it turns out it was
- 12:01Speaker 4: from a couple of famous American Impressionist painters. The person
- 12:08Speaker 4: passed away one of the people in the painting. Well,
- 12:11Speaker 4: I say, I guess it was one person, wasn't two,
- 12:13Speaker 4: But he's got like four names, so I thought it
- 12:15Speaker 4: was two people. Because we see four names, I think
- 12:17Speaker 4: two people, you don't think one person. And I'd never
- 12:19Speaker 4: heard of this person.
- 12:20Speaker 1: But they died at age eighty eight, nineteen seventy two, and.
- 12:25Speaker 4: His works of art are in collections all over the
- 12:28Speaker 4: United States, including Indiana State University, Any State Museum in Indianapolis,
- 12:35Speaker 4: Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Wake Forest University in Winston Salem,
- 12:40Speaker 4: Winston Salem, North Carolina.
- 12:42Speaker 5: And yeah, well it must have been ugly if she
- 12:46Speaker 5: wanted to frame. Yeah, like it was. I wonder, I
- 12:50Speaker 5: wonder what this thing looks like. Do you see a
- 12:52Speaker 5: picture of it?
- 12:53Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, there's a it's a nice it looks like a.
- 12:57Speaker 1: Haunted mansion picture.
- 13:00Speaker 4: Okay, hold on, let me send you you listen to
- 13:05Speaker 4: our live coverage. By the way, it's the fifth hour podcast.
- 13:07Speaker 4: As we attempt to send a photo homeseek, I got that.
- 13:13Speaker 1: I think if I if I I think this.
- 13:14Speaker 5: Would like to alert all the affiliates down the line
- 13:17Speaker 5: that Ben is trying to work his iPhone.
- 13:19Speaker 4: Yes, I am fuxing around with my phone right now.
- 13:22Speaker 4: I did quick send.
- 13:25Speaker 5: You can Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I'm looking at it
- 13:27Speaker 5: right now. Well you can. Yeah, it's kind of creepy.
- 13:30Speaker 5: I could see why she just wanted to frame.
- 13:33Speaker 1: But the frame's creepy though, right, the paintings, yeah whatever,
- 13:36Speaker 1: but it's.
- 13:36Speaker 5: All creepy, I guess. Yeah, that's a good point.
- 13:40Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like and she paid again, let me go
- 13:43Speaker 4: back here. She paid at a couple of bucks for that.
- 13:47Speaker 5: I've always wondered about dumpster divers who go around to
- 13:50Speaker 5: these yard sales just they're hoarders. Most of the people
- 13:53Speaker 5: are hoarders. I know, some of the people legitimately need
- 13:57Speaker 5: clothes and maybe toys to their kids or whatever, ever,
- 14:00Speaker 5: because they're a little down on their luck. I get that.
- 14:03Speaker 5: But there's also people like Rerenda's aunt who's just a
- 14:07Speaker 5: hoarder and she goes to all she lives in Anaheim.
- 14:11Speaker 5: She goes to all these yard sales every weekend and
- 14:14Speaker 5: takes other people's crap from their garage and puts it
- 14:16Speaker 5: in her garage.
- 14:20Speaker 4: Just shifting crap around from it's like yeah, and there's
- 14:24Speaker 4: there's shows dedicated this. Remember the what channels, that History Channel.
- 14:27Speaker 4: Those guys that go around, they were in Iowa. I
- 14:29Speaker 4: think they're in Tennessee now. One of them not on
- 14:31Speaker 4: the show is like one.
- 14:32Speaker 5: Oh American Pickers.
- 14:33Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, ye back roads and find random stuff. And
- 14:37Speaker 4: then there's the the people that buy the storage shed
- 14:40Speaker 4: storage wars. I think that's still in the air, and
- 14:42Speaker 4: they'll go around and buy stuff. But you figure there's
- 14:45Speaker 4: so many people living and people get older and then
- 14:47Speaker 4: you know they they you don't take anything with you
- 14:50Speaker 4: right when you check out. You talked about George Foreman
- 14:53Speaker 4: yesterday and his death over the weekend.
- 14:55Speaker 1: I mean, George made a lot of money. He's probably
- 14:57Speaker 1: a lot of crazy stuff.
- 14:57Speaker 4: People go through his stuff, but you know, people who
- 15:01Speaker 4: aren't famous, maybe they had one or two things that
- 15:03Speaker 4: were worth a lot of money, and when they die,
- 15:06Speaker 4: stuff kind of gets you don't want to go through it,
- 15:07Speaker 4: you don't have time to go through it, and then.
- 15:09Speaker 1: It ends up. It ends up at a Salvation Army
- 15:12Speaker 1: or a good will or something.
- 15:13Speaker 4: And there's so there's opportunities there, but it's a it's
- 15:15Speaker 4: a needle in a haystack situation.
- 15:18Speaker 5: By the way, that that picker who passed away, that
- 15:20Speaker 5: was Frank Okay, yeah, he died towards the end of
- 15:25Speaker 5: last year. Oh was it? Okay.
- 15:27Speaker 4: The next one is from a guy named Ben and
- 15:31Speaker 4: also in Ohio. We are dominating the Buckeye State, and
- 15:38Speaker 4: Ben says he wanted to get our thoughts on the
- 15:41Speaker 4: story that door Dash will now allow its customers to
- 15:45Speaker 4: buy now pay later for fast food. You can buy
- 15:52Speaker 4: I guess you can buy your big mac and fries
- 15:54Speaker 4: here and then you can pay in installments.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Really, I don't.
- 15:59Speaker 5: I don't.
- 16:00Speaker 1: First of all, I don't get the whole door Dash thing.
- 16:02Speaker 4: I know a lot of you boys and girls delivered
- 16:04Speaker 4: door Dash or Uber Eats or whatever, and.
- 16:06Speaker 1: God bless you. But my take is, if I'm that.
- 16:11Speaker 4: Lazy that I don't even want to get out of
- 16:13Speaker 4: the house to get the food, I don't need the food,
- 16:16Speaker 4: that's just that's just me.
- 16:17Speaker 1: I don't.
- 16:17Speaker 5: I don't.
- 16:18Speaker 4: I have relatives, some of my in laws, and one
- 16:22Speaker 4: in particular, all she does is order Uber.
- 16:26Speaker 1: Eats and door Dash. It's non stop.
- 16:28Speaker 4: In fact, we'll go over to visit with these in
- 16:31Speaker 4: laws and they'll be like, hey, what do you want
- 16:34Speaker 4: for dinner?
- 16:34Speaker 1: I'm like, I will name something.
- 16:36Speaker 4: Well, I'll just order it on you know whatever app
- 16:40Speaker 4: and the end up paying so much extra for the food.
- 16:43Speaker 1: But that's a bad shap.
- 16:45Speaker 5: Those fees, all those fees and taxes are what kills
- 16:48Speaker 5: it because I actually, I don't know want to tip
- 16:52Speaker 5: my driver a good tip, so I want that money
- 16:55Speaker 5: to go to him. I don't need a twelve dollars
- 16:58Speaker 5: delivery fee that doesn't even go to.
- 16:59Speaker 4: The no, for sure, but just the idea that you
- 17:03Speaker 4: need to pay off a fast food dinner like that is.
- 17:10Speaker 5: Yeah, it's lazy. A lot of it is lazy people.
- 17:12Speaker 5: But like you said, we have a lot of delivery
- 17:15Speaker 5: drivers listening. I respect it. I respect your hustle a lot.
- 17:19Speaker 5: It's it's not easy work.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Yep.
- 17:21Speaker 4: Well it's the beauty of like valet parking, same concept, Right,
- 17:25Speaker 4: You're too lazy to go park and walk, so you're
- 17:28Speaker 4: gonna do the valet parking and that's that's that. Joey
- 17:33Speaker 4: writes in from New York. He says he's in Long Island,
- 17:36Speaker 4: but he does not know e dog or Joe dog. Good,
- 17:39Speaker 4: stay away from the dog. That guy annoyed me. The
- 17:41Speaker 4: other night, this guy E Dog started to call a
- 17:43Speaker 4: show again. With Joe Dogs working during the day, but
- 17:46Speaker 4: Dog starts calling show again.
- 17:47Speaker 5: I've been seeing people complain on Twitter about e Dog.
- 17:50Speaker 4: Yeah, so he's like, he's like non secuitar guy, Like
- 17:53Speaker 4: we're having two totally different conversations. I'm talking about one thing,
- 17:57Speaker 4: he's talking about the other thing.
- 17:58Speaker 1: It's just terrible. Anyway.
- 17:59Speaker 4: I guess this is from Long Island because Joey says
- 18:01Speaker 4: he lives there. The founder of pirates Booty. You ever
- 18:06Speaker 4: had pirate's booty?
- 18:08Speaker 5: Ever had his favorite snacks?
- 18:10Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 18:10Speaker 4: Everyone loves eating that pirate's booty. That sounds dirty, but
- 18:13Speaker 4: it's it's just better for you.
- 18:15Speaker 1: I supposedly, I don't know.
- 18:16Speaker 4: Anyway, the founder of pirates Booty had started a mutiny
- 18:23Speaker 4: on Long Island. He declared himself as the mayor of
- 18:29Speaker 4: this town on Long Island and attempted to fire the
- 18:33Speaker 4: staff of the village. So that's pretty ballsy, right, But
- 18:39Speaker 4: that's the pirate attitude, Isn't that the pirate attitude?
- 18:41Speaker 3: Dan?
- 18:41Speaker 1: If you're a pirate, that's what pirates do. They don't
- 18:46Speaker 1: have to follow the law. They're freaking pirates.
- 18:50Speaker 5: This puffed corn and rice snack food says it was
- 18:53Speaker 5: developed in nineteen eighty seven by Robert Erlich.
- 18:58Speaker 4: That's who it is, Robert. It was fun O birding
- 19:02Speaker 4: his authority as mayor, demanding access to office space, declaring
- 19:07Speaker 4: that the entire village staff was fired in Seacliff, New York.
- 19:13Speaker 1: On on Long Island. Yeah, he was going around there
- 19:18Speaker 1: doing his thing. How about that?
- 19:19Speaker 4: About twenty six miles northeast of midtown Manhattan, so about
- 19:24Speaker 4: half an hour, half an hour helicopter ride, actually a
- 19:27Speaker 4: helicopter I probably about ten minutes car twenty six miles
- 19:31Speaker 4: from midtown Manhattan. It'll take you about three hours to
- 19:33Speaker 4: get there. Better off taking the train. So yeah, this
- 19:37Speaker 4: guy trying to take over local government. There must be
- 19:42Speaker 4: more to that story, right, There's got to be. How
- 19:44Speaker 4: much you think that guy made from pirates bodoties everywhere
- 19:47Speaker 4: aged entered pirate's booty, puffed rice and corn.
- 19:51Speaker 1: It's all natural, Danny, It's all natural, it is.
- 19:54Speaker 5: How that white cheddar is tasty, not bad.
- 19:57Speaker 1: You can get that at Costco. You can get that
- 19:59Speaker 1: at Target Walmart where you do your shopping there. So
- 20:02Speaker 1: I don't know what you want going to say, Joey,
- 20:03Speaker 1: I saw, I mean, I saw the story.
- 20:04Speaker 4: It's very bizarre. I don't know what the guy had.
- 20:07Speaker 4: I don't know what much more than what you just
- 20:09Speaker 4: sent me. So it's interesting. Every time I see Pirate's
- 20:13Speaker 4: booty in the store, I'll think of the mutiny on
- 20:16Speaker 4: Long Island?
- 20:17Speaker 5: You know, really quick? Did you know booty meant treasure?
- 20:20Speaker 4: Well, what it can mean treasure to you, it means
- 20:22Speaker 4: something else to me. That's fine, means some different to me.
- 20:29Speaker 4: Alf from the year in nineteen twenty six says when
- 20:31Speaker 4: Wheaties released the first ever radio jingle. So, gentlemen, as
- 20:37Speaker 4: fans of radio jingles, can you explain to me? Alf
- 20:41Speaker 4: says why the cougars are no longer coming? But cars
- 20:46Speaker 4: for Kids have been bludgeoning our ear holes for over
- 20:50Speaker 4: thirty years now. Yeah, cars for kids. According to Alf,
- 20:55Speaker 4: he said that that started in nineteen ninety four. I
- 21:01Speaker 4: love the radio jingle I Love Love Love. We've we've
- 21:05Speaker 4: talked about this before.
- 21:06Speaker 1: It is so good. Yeah, And.
- 21:11Speaker 4: There was a point when I first got into radio
- 21:13Speaker 4: there were still stations that played jingles.
- 21:15Speaker 1: I guess I'm old.
- 21:17Speaker 4: And at some point they thought, well, that's too old.
- 21:20Speaker 4: You sound too old as a station. Like the programming
- 21:23Speaker 4: people said, you gotta you gotta be hipper and cooler,
- 21:25Speaker 4: and it sounds sounds like your grandpa's radio station. So
- 21:29Speaker 4: they had to get rid of all the jingles and
- 21:30Speaker 4: all that. But they were They were great everyone, and
- 21:34Speaker 4: you jingles are They work? They are effective, They work people.
- 21:40Speaker 5: Remember, Yeah, even in the late nineties been I remember
- 21:43Speaker 5: it got pulled because people complained, of course they did.
- 21:47Speaker 5: But corn Nuts had a radio ad campaign that was
- 21:51Speaker 5: busted nut. Busted nut. It's so much fun when you masticate,
- 21:58Speaker 5: well it masticates fancy word for chewing. But people were so,
- 22:03Speaker 5: oh my god, they're singing bust a nut. Yeah, no, no,
- 22:07Speaker 5: it was awesome. I actually got a copy of that
- 22:11Speaker 5: CD and I brought it to other radio stations wherever
- 22:14Speaker 5: my career went, and in the middle of regular commercial breaks,
- 22:18Speaker 5: I would play that commercial even though it wasn't scheduled.
- 22:22Speaker 1: That's great, that's funny.
- 22:24Speaker 4: I recall the advertisers of my youth because of jingles
- 22:28Speaker 4: like pop pop phizz fizz. Oh, what a relief it is, right,
- 22:32Speaker 4: I mean the jingle that's yeah.
- 22:34Speaker 5: How about all the gum, all the bubble gum ones
- 22:37Speaker 5: like Big Red.
- 22:38Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Big Red was how about the hot Dog?
- 22:41Speaker 1: I wish I would.
- 22:42Speaker 5: It's going a movie.
- 22:47Speaker 1: Hey. When we were kids, Danny, we wanted to get
- 22:49Speaker 1: a toy. I don't want to grow up. I want
- 22:51Speaker 1: to be a toys r us kid.
- 22:53Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I don't want to grow up. I'm a
- 22:55Speaker 5: toys r us kid.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 22:57Speaker 4: That's all basic jingle stuff, right, that's and they got.
- 23:02Speaker 1: Away for it.
- 23:02Speaker 4: If you you can become a is it a warm
- 23:06Speaker 4: worm hole? Is that what you call when you get
- 23:08Speaker 4: stuck in the ear?
- 23:09Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, earworm?
- 23:10Speaker 1: I guess I say. I think earworm is probably the
- 23:12Speaker 1: better term. Earworm. And people just.
- 23:14Speaker 4: Repeat that over and I love the bit. And there's
- 23:17Speaker 4: still some radio stations to do this. It's one of
- 23:19Speaker 4: the great gimmicks. How many times can you say the
- 23:22Speaker 4: station name in like thirty seconds or twenty seconds?
- 23:25Speaker 1: Right?
- 23:26Speaker 4: And I think last one in La K Earth did
- 23:31Speaker 4: this for a few years back, where you had to
- 23:33Speaker 4: scream you know the name of the station over and
- 23:36Speaker 4: over and over and whoever you got like one hundred
- 23:39Speaker 4: bucks for every time you said.
- 23:40Speaker 1: It's a breaking it's a solid gimmick. But yeah, I
- 23:44Speaker 1: and there's a.
- 23:45Speaker 5: Great speaking of jingles. Earth one oh one, Oh.
- 23:48Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, k Earth one on one. How about the
- 23:51Speaker 4: Ben Maler Show.
- 23:54Speaker 1: How about shut Up?
- 23:55Speaker 4: You know no wf an and New York famous all
- 24:00Speaker 4: sports station for years.
- 24:02Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do.
- 24:03Speaker 4: I haven't been a listener to WFN in a while,
- 24:05Speaker 4: but they used to have the jingle, the jingle.
- 24:08Speaker 5: We got to get a fifth hour podcast jingle made.
- 24:11Speaker 4: Yes, I would love that. There's the big jingle shop
- 24:14Speaker 4: in Dallas that does most of the the gingles. We
- 24:18Speaker 4: can have one made by anybody. I mean, it'd be awesome.
- 24:21Speaker 4: We'd play the crap out of that pretty much every week,
- 24:25Speaker 4: be NonStop.
- 24:26Speaker 1: All right, what is next?
- 24:27Speaker 4: It is the mail bag here on this college basketball
- 24:32Speaker 4: Sunday here in late March, Mike in Fullerton writes, and
- 24:37Speaker 4: he says, hello, March Madness, Mallor and diaper Dandy Danny
- 24:42Speaker 4: g Ben. I know you think people talking about their
- 24:45Speaker 4: fantasy football team is terrible radio. That's true, But what
- 24:49Speaker 4: about March Madness bracket talk. By the time you read this,
- 24:52Speaker 4: my bracket might be totally busted. But as of my writing,
- 24:56Speaker 4: I picked fifteen of sixteen games correctly in the beginning
- 24:59Speaker 4: of the tournament.
- 25:00Speaker 1: It pretty impressive. Huh. Anyway, Mike says, my.
- 25:04Speaker 5: Question, no, you know who went sixteen? And oh is
- 25:07Speaker 5: that your boy Steve Hartman?
- 25:09Speaker 1: Is that right?
- 25:10Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 25:12Speaker 3: Uh?
- 25:12Speaker 4: My question is our FSR employees eligible to win the
- 25:16Speaker 4: twenty five hundred dollars Tractor Supply gift card, because he
- 25:21Speaker 4: pointed out Steve Hartman is at the very top there.
- 25:24Speaker 1: I want, he says, I want the gift card.
- 25:27Speaker 4: And I'm pretty sure we can't win it, although I
- 25:30Speaker 4: did click on the thing when I signed up Danny
- 25:32Speaker 4: that said I have to give my information out if
- 25:35Speaker 4: I win, because you know, to use your your image
- 25:38Speaker 4: and likeness or whatever you win the gift car.
- 25:41Speaker 5: Man, if you won that gift card, you could finally
- 25:44Speaker 5: feed livestock to your alligator pond.
- 25:47Speaker 1: I would love to do that.
- 25:48Speaker 5: It would be Uh.
- 25:49Speaker 1: I can actually buy some like bear traps, you know,
- 25:52Speaker 1: not that I need them. I can buy that.
- 25:54Speaker 4: And you have you been to a tractors spl They're
- 25:56Speaker 4: actually pretty cool.
- 25:57Speaker 5: I've never been. But if I was driving past one,
- 25:59Speaker 5: I would bark and go inside. For sure.
- 26:02Speaker 1: I did.
- 26:03Speaker 4: We were driving up the closest one, I believe to
- 26:08Speaker 4: downtown LA. We were driving up past Santa Barbara. We
- 26:12Speaker 4: were near solving in the next the next town, what
- 26:16Speaker 4: is the name of the next town, Bueleton, Buleton. Yeah, yeah,
- 26:20Speaker 4: there's a pretty sure there's a tractor supply in Bueleton.
- 26:24Speaker 4: That's the one we went to, and it was it
- 26:27Speaker 4: was pretty neat. It was a nice store. They had
- 26:29Speaker 4: a little bit of everything. And you need a wheelbarrow,
- 26:32Speaker 4: they'll get your wheelbarrow. They got that. You know, you
- 26:34Speaker 4: need a bag of burrow baggage, you you got whatever
- 26:38Speaker 4: you need. Need overalls, they gets you some overalls. They
- 26:42Speaker 4: got a little bit of everything there attractor supply. So
- 26:45Speaker 4: I don't think you need to worry Mike about Hartman.
- 26:47Speaker 4: Even if he wins, he's he's not going to get
- 26:49Speaker 4: it done. Helps That would Hartman be if he went
- 26:52Speaker 4: perfect bracket and didn't get the million dollars and.
- 26:55Speaker 5: Didn't get the million.
- 26:56Speaker 4: I know Kevin in Kansas, right since, says dear ben Ge,
- 27:00Speaker 4: I found your overnight show during March of twenty twenty.
- 27:04Speaker 1: Oh, here we go, Danny. We talked about that.
- 27:06Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, yeah, I found your overnight show during March
- 27:10Speaker 4: of twenty twenty, the spring break from which no schools returned.
- 27:14Speaker 4: I did some malar math and discovered that in five
- 27:18Speaker 4: full years of listening to every hour of every show,
- 27:22Speaker 4: including the weekend show, that is thirteen hundred regular shows
- 27:26Speaker 4: plus four hours each at four hours each, rather one
- 27:30Speaker 4: hundred and fifty six Fifth Hour shows at one hour each.
- 27:34Speaker 4: That means two thousand and eighty shows five thousand, nine
- 27:39Speaker 4: hundred and eighty hours. That's impressive, I says, thanks for
- 27:45Speaker 4: filling our lives with great sports talk. So here's a
- 27:50Speaker 4: fun fact for Kevin in Kansas. So if my math
- 27:53Speaker 4: is correct, I did use malar math here. I used malamth.
- 27:56Speaker 4: So by my account, Kevin and Antis has spent in
- 28:01Speaker 4: the last five years, he has spent two hundred and
- 28:06Speaker 4: forty nine days of his life consuming audio content produced
- 28:09Speaker 4: by either the Ben Malers Show or the Fifth Hour podcast.
- 28:13Speaker 4: Because five nine hundred and eighty hours divided by twenty
- 28:17Speaker 4: four twenty four hours a day, and that works out
- 28:20Speaker 4: to two hundred and forty nine point one days listening
- 28:25Speaker 4: to this this audio content.
- 28:28Speaker 1: I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to
- 28:30Speaker 1: add up. But people sleep for about eight hours a day, right,
- 28:34Speaker 1: So hold on a second, I mean normally, yeah, I
- 28:38Speaker 1: don't sleep.
- 28:40Speaker 4: So divided by let's do sixteen because say the guy
- 28:44Speaker 4: Kevin sleeps eight hours or he's going to the bathroom,
- 28:47Speaker 4: taking shower or whatever, brushing his teeth, so that means
- 28:51Speaker 4: he's actually.
- 28:52Speaker 5: Sure he's got a speaker. He's probably got a Bluetooth
- 28:54Speaker 5: speaker in there with your voice on it, point purrepoint.
- 28:57Speaker 4: But based on sixteen hours a day, he's listened for
- 29:00Speaker 4: every waking minute for three hundred and seventy three days.
- 29:04Speaker 5: So holy holy shit.
- 29:06Speaker 4: All right, thank you, Kevin. Another COVID sports radio consumer, Danny,
- 29:11Speaker 4: because of the pandemic. Yes, all right, next up, ish
- 29:15Speaker 4: boy didn't write this guy's name? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah
- 29:19Speaker 4: yeah yeah. Hold on a second, I mean click over here,
- 29:22Speaker 4: and I gotta futch around. You have got to be
- 29:26Speaker 4: kidding me, all right, I'll get to the name of
- 29:29Speaker 4: a minute. Any of the callers from him. I think
- 29:32Speaker 4: he's in the wild I think this is the wild man,
- 29:35Speaker 4: he says. Guys recently got one of my wisdom teeth removed.
- 29:38Speaker 4: I chose not to go under, but let them numb
- 29:42Speaker 4: me up a little bit. I started out all right,
- 29:45Speaker 4: but when it came to the final pull to get
- 29:47Speaker 4: it out, I yelped like a baby. It was not
- 29:51Speaker 4: the first time getting wisdom teeth removed. When I was
- 29:55Speaker 4: young in the Navy, I got my bottom wisdom out.
- 29:58Speaker 4: I remember seeing smoke and smelling it too. Have you
- 30:02Speaker 4: guys had any painful dental work? And he says, if
- 30:08Speaker 4: you can give me a date for the Columbus, Ohio
- 30:10Speaker 4: meet and greet, I will try to try to make
- 30:15Speaker 4: it out. Yeah, this is the I believe. This is
- 30:18Speaker 4: the wild man from from West Virginia.
- 30:21Speaker 1: Believe.
- 30:21Speaker 4: So a couple of years ago, Danny, remember I had
- 30:24Speaker 4: the emergency medical I had emergency medical dental surgery a
- 30:29Speaker 4: couple of years ago.
- 30:30Speaker 1: But I was old.
- 30:30Speaker 5: Yeah, and if you didn't have the connection, remember, if
- 30:32Speaker 5: you didn't have the connection of that dentist, you would
- 30:34Speaker 5: have been screwed.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I I had waited too long.
- 30:38Speaker 4: I needed by the time they tracked me down, I
- 30:41Speaker 4: had to have emergency dental surgery because my whole mouth
- 30:45Speaker 4: was like swelling and disgusting and there was like puss
- 30:47Speaker 4: and goo and it was a mess. So that was
- 30:51Speaker 4: pretty bad. And then I had I had braces when
- 30:54Speaker 4: I was younger, and I yeah, my mouth is a
- 30:57Speaker 4: is a mess. I've had some some night mirror procedures,
- 31:01Speaker 4: wild man.
- 31:01Speaker 5: What about you, Danny G I've had my wisdom teeth
- 31:05Speaker 5: pulled out, but no emergency dental surgeries or anything like that.
- 31:10Speaker 4: Knock on wood, Well you have that to look forward to,
- 31:12Speaker 4: Danny as you get older.
- 31:14Speaker 5: All right, last one, don't you dare jinx me.
- 31:16Speaker 1: If you're lucky enough, Right, if you're lucky, you'll have it.
- 31:19Speaker 4: Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass rites In says, hello boys. A
- 31:22Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago, I sent in that I discovered
- 31:26Speaker 4: the next town over for me has a raising canes. Now,
- 31:30Speaker 4: since you have Benny's big board, I have Ryan's reviews.
- 31:35Speaker 4: Ryan says, I got the three piece combo texas toast
- 31:39Speaker 4: and some French fries with a soda. Now, you guys
- 31:43Speaker 4: were right. It was hands down one of the great
- 31:46Speaker 4: chicken meals. He's his best, but best means as goes
- 31:49Speaker 4: all the rest. I'm sure Ryan meant great chicken meals
- 31:52Speaker 4: I've ever had. I will have to put this at
- 31:55Speaker 4: number one, no question this week. Just letting you guys
- 32:03Speaker 4: know about random raising Canes visit. It was a phenomenal,
- 32:09Speaker 4: says Ryan. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Ryan, They're not
- 32:12Speaker 4: a spot nice. I enjoy Raising Canes, and.
- 32:16Speaker 5: Now I really feel like we're doing God's work.
- 32:18Speaker 4: We're spreading the gospel. First time I read Raising Keynes
- 32:21Speaker 4: was in Vegas, I said. I remember telling my wife.
- 32:24Speaker 4: I said, listen, when I was a younger, guy said, someday,
- 32:28Speaker 4: I'm going to beat McDonald's. I'm going to beat all
- 32:30Speaker 4: the other burger king all the restaurants because I'm going
- 32:32Speaker 4: to start a fast food restaurant with only chicken fingers.
- 32:35Speaker 4: I never did it, but I was right that model,
- 32:38Speaker 4: that plan would have worked because Raising Kines is very
- 32:41Speaker 4: successful and they stole the business model that I had
- 32:44Speaker 4: as a child.
- 32:45Speaker 1: All right, we'll get out on that, Danny. I will
- 32:46Speaker 1: be back tonight.
- 32:47Speaker 4: I also want to let you guys know, since your
- 32:49Speaker 4: p ones on the podcast, I will yet again be
- 32:53Speaker 4: filling in on the Rogan and Rodney Show on Monday afternoons.
- 32:57Speaker 1: So tomorrow give me ahead of it right now.
- 32:58Speaker 5: Yang, how many days off to those guys?
- 33:01Speaker 1: Way too many? And here's the fun thing though.
- 33:04Speaker 4: Now on Monday, I'm doing a two hour show with
- 33:07Speaker 4: Fred's not back from Japan, Fred Rogan. So I'm gonna
- 33:11Speaker 4: be working with the man that stole the foul ball
- 33:14Speaker 4: from Max Munsey, Rodney Pete, and that'll be his first
- 33:17Speaker 4: show back since he became a viral star in Tokyo
- 33:22Speaker 4: when he snatched.
- 33:25Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the new bart man.
- 33:27Speaker 1: Yeah, the new Bartman.
- 33:28Speaker 4: And I did not know this until I did the
- 33:31Speaker 4: show the other day with Jonas that the reason he
- 33:34Speaker 4: had a glove was they don't have the proper netting
- 33:37Speaker 4: in Tokyo, so they actually hand the fans gloves.
- 33:41Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 33:41Speaker 5: Yeah, and his kid works in the Dodgers clubhouse.
- 33:45Speaker 1: Yeah, his kid is like a clubby for the team.
- 33:47Speaker 4: But they supposedly they just hand fans gloves in that
- 33:52Speaker 4: stadium so they don't get killed from foul balls.
- 33:56Speaker 5: We played a SoundBite of him on Covino and Rich
- 33:59Speaker 5: and he was saying he was protecting his wife, but
- 34:02Speaker 5: she's like a row behind him.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 34:05Speaker 4: I mean I think that was just muscle memory. I
- 34:07Speaker 4: think he just saw the ball. Seaball catch ball, Seaball
- 34:11Speaker 4: catch ball.
- 34:12Speaker 5: Can't wait to hear you ask him about it.
- 34:14Speaker 4: Oh, I'm gonna pepper him I'm gonna completely pepper him
- 34:18Speaker 4: and just not on him. Oh no, No, I don't
- 34:21Speaker 4: believe that he was protecting his wife. I think he
- 34:23Speaker 4: just wanted the ball. I want to know what happened
- 34:25Speaker 4: to the ball. Did he keep the ball? Did he
- 34:26Speaker 4: bring the ball back? He's tight with all those Dodger people.
- 34:30Speaker 4: Are the Dodgers really upset with him? Does he have
- 34:32Speaker 4: to have a meeting? Yeah, the whole thing I want
- 34:34Speaker 4: to know. Anyway, have a great day. I'll be back tonight.
- 34:36Speaker 4: We'll talk about the college basketball and then we've got
- 34:38Speaker 4: the football signings. Will it be any today that we
- 34:42Speaker 4: need to yap about? Tonight we'll talk about all of that,
- 34:45Speaker 4: and Danny, you'll be back.
- 34:46Speaker 1: Normal week for you. I assume yes.
- 34:48Speaker 5: No, man, Yeah, normal afternoons with Covino and Rich. That
- 34:52Speaker 5: is five to seven pm on the East Coast and
- 34:54Speaker 5: two to four pm in beautiful his Moo Beach, California.
- 34:59Speaker 1: My Pismo Beach.
- 35:00Speaker 4: A right, have a wonderful rest of your sunny Thank
- 35:02Speaker 4: you for supporting the podcast, and we'll talk to you
- 35:05Speaker 4: next time.
- 35:06Speaker 5: Enjoy the rest of your weekend, enjoy the games. Yeah,
- 35:09Speaker 5: Asta Bosta gotta murder, I gotta go